Name: Takahata Isao | Grajdian Maria-Mihaela
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Takahata Isao (1935-2018) was the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, the world-famous Japanese animation enterprise since 1985. Together with Miyazaki Hayao (born 1942), Takahata Isao uniquely impacted the world of animation – Japanese and beyond –, both aesthetically and ideologically. On the pursuit of what he called “l’invention du reel dans l’animation” (“the invention of the real in animation”), Takahata Isao sought to establish the ability of animation to recreate rather than to represent reality, so that the bi-dimensionality of animation reflects and transcends the multi-dimensionality of life. Throughout his activity as an animation director, his efforts towards realism are ultimately replaced through experiments to simplify representation in his last two animation films – an aesthetic attitude revealing Takahata’s preoccupation with the dialectic interaction between reality and representation, which challenges classical understandings of “beauty” and “ugliness”: Cuteness respectively the tendency towards “cutification” in (Japanese) animation is to be comprehended as a proactive confrontation with socio-cultural cliches which do not allow for deviation from the norm or for expansion of one’s own individual potential. From an ideological perspective, Takahata Isao viewed community as human solidarity and social cohesion in their functions as fundamental premises for harmony and co-existence. The continuity of life despite losses and death highlighted the fact that life is